From Lew Rockwell:

“Survival Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘This report highlights ‘the most inconvenient truth of all’ – that the world’s tribal people, who have done the least to cause climate change and are most affected by it, are now having their rights violated and land devastated in the name of attempts to stop it. Hiding behind the global push to prevent climate change, governments and companies are mounting a massive land grab. As usual, where money and vast profits are at stake, the world’s indigenous people are being shamefully swept aside.’

Lysander Spooner (“Poverty: Its illegal Causes and Legal Cures”):

“The principle, that a debt is obligatory only to the extent of the debtor’s means when the debt becomes due, would nearly, if not wholly, put an end to a class of contracts, that are immoral and fraudulent, in intent, if not in law, on the part of the creditors, and which ought never to be enforced against debtors. These contracts are of this kind. An old and experienced man takes advantage of the inexperience and the sanguine anticipations of a young man, to sell him property at enormous prices, giving him credit for the whole, or a part, but well knowing, from his own superior judgment and experience, that the young man will not at all realize his anticipations, or even realize enough from the property to cancel his liability. But he sells the property to him on the calculation that the latter will be able to pay at least the real value of the property; and that, as for the balance, he is a young man, he will be able to work it out; or his friends will pay it for him; or the possession of this property will enable him to get credit of others, and thus he will be enabled to pay this debt by throwing an equivalent amount of loss upon somebody else. Such contracts are plainly immoral and fraudulent, on the part of the creditor, both towards the debtor, and towards others*2-although their immorality and fraud are of a character not susceptible of being legally proved and defeated in particular cases. The only way of defeating them seems to be, to adopt the principle that no contract is binding beyond the limits of the debtor’s means.”

Accounting for missing gold at the Royal Canadian Mint:

“Mint officials double-counted some gold bullion they sold, and also underestimated the shrinkage of the gold during processing.

The federal government had withheld bonuses for mint executives until the mystery was solved. It’s unclear whether those bonuses will still be paid out.

Junior Transport Minister Rob Merrifield, who’s responsible for the mint, called in the RCMP on June 9 after he learned that an audit would not “rectify the problem” of the missing gold. That’s about 10 weeks after the government first learned of the missiing gold.”

CTV.

Rick Ackerman:

“The giant retailer’s shot-across-the-bow – offering the top ten best-sellers for $10 — came just in time to devastate book stores during the holiday shopping season. Stores of every size will be vulnerable — from independents who have been savvy enough to survive competition from Amazon, to the largest vendors, including Borders, Barnes & Noble, Target, and even Amazon itself. No seller will make money at that price, not even publishers, but that is of little concern to Wal-Mart, which seeks only to demonstrate in as brutal a manner as possible that it will not be undersold. Nor can independent booksellers simply buy copies from Wal-Mart to resell, since $10 best sellers are being limited to just a few copies per buyer. The predictable result six to twelve months down the road is that many book stores both big and small will be closing, adding hugely to a retail vacancy rate that is already approaching depressionary levels.

Wal-Mart is all good cheer in promoting its everyday values, but there is no longer any denying that its primary goal is to drive all of its competitors into the ground. This strategy will no doubt be abetted by Chinese manufacturers eager to unload goods into a weak U.S. market at any cost. When Wal-Mart eventually succeeds at it, we can be certain that “everyday low prices” will be superseded in practice by prices reflecting whatever the traffic will bear. Wal-Mart has the reach, the naked ambition and the pricing power to bankrupt nearly any competitor in any business, from consumer electronics, to Halloween costumes, to funeral services, to pharmaceuticals, to lawn furniture. A decade ago, a grassroots movement to hold the line against Wal-Mart’s relentless expansion died after the retailer won some local skirmishes. Now the company is too big to oppose, a vital appendage of nearly every town in which it operates. America has paid a huge price for those everyday values.”

From George Monbiot, the real global warming conspiracy revealed:

“The capture of George W. Bush, a late convert to the cause of Communist World Government, was made possible only by the threatened release of footage filmed by a knight at Yale, showing the future president engaged in coitus with a Ford Mustang. Most ostensibly-capitalist governments remain apprised of where their real interests lie, though I note with disappointment that we have so far failed to eliminate Vaclav Klaus. Through the offices of compliant states, the Master’s third grand law has been accepted: world government will be established under the guise of controlling manmade emissions of greenhouse gases.

Keeping the scientific community in line remains a challenge. The national academies are becoming ever more querulous and greedy, and require higher pay-offs each year. The inexplicable events of the past month, in which the windows of all the leading scientific institutions were broken and a horse’s head turned up in James Hansen’s bed, appear to have staved off the immediate crisis, but for how much longer can we maintain the consensus?

Knights Carbonic, now that the hour of our triumph is at hand, I urge you all to redouble your efforts. In the name of the Master, go forth and terrify.

Professor Ernst Kattweizel, University of Redcar. 21st Grand Warden of the Temple of the Knights Carbonic.”

My Comment:

That´s from prominent environmentalist George Monbiot. I hope the emails were the work of a whistle-blower, as I think that will make the evidence that much harder to dismiss. But, even if they were, it´s quite easy for the global warming advocates to spin this whole business.

CBS News via Lew Rockwell:

“One theory says that a malicious hacker slipped into East Anglia’s network and snatched thousands of documents. Another says that the files had already been assembled in response to a Freedom of Information request and, immediately after it was denied, a whistleblower decided to disclose them. (Lending credence to that theory is the fact that no personal e-mail messages unrelated to climate change appear to have been leaked.)”

Here´s hoping….